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bigpapou.bsky.social @bigpapou.bsky.social · 10h
I hate it when Google Ai is like ”would you like me to…” no! I wouldn’t like you to! When I’m at a library no librarian butts into my search and is like “ would you like me to blabla bla?” No, sometimes I ask but I wouldn’t literally never like Google to do any of the things it wants to do.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/10/2026
Today, on World Teachers’ Day, we celebrate the teachers, educators, and child care providers who care for the future of New York and invest in our children every day. New York City doesn’t move without our teachers. We are grateful for their work today and every day.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I do not mean to single out LeBron James, but it feels completely bizarre to me that an active player is allowed to promote "prediction markets" but would get banned for life for using that service to bet ten dollars on their own team to win a game.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Very Greek tragedy thing about LLMs is that they simulataneously provide clear evidence that writing is extremely important to cognition while they also cause people to stop doing it.
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"
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bigpapou.bsky.social @bigpapou.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Delicious and nutritious @shearwaterband.bsky.social show at rough trade Rockefeller center (?!?!). Emily Lee managed to continue her unbroken streak of saving the day and Jonathan Meiburg was so good. Took a friend who had never heard of the and he was loving it. Thanks for being a good band.
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bigpapou.bsky.social @bigpapou.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh man you got DAVIDSONED
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Kavitha A. Davidson @kavithad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I wrote about Arch Manning, Holly Rowe, and why many of us aren't laughing. In short: Men in sports are scaring the hoes. www.ms.now/opinion/arch...
ms.now
Opinion | Holly Rowe deserved better. As a woman who covers sports, all of us do.
Kavitha Davidson: Arch Manning's response to a misogynstic AI video is a grim reminder for women in sports
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bigpapou.bsky.social @bigpapou.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I struggled with this voice for many years. i have an idea of why it recently left but it’s nice to not live with that any more.
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
John Fetterman called in sick to avoid a meeting with three Pennsylvania paralyzed military veterans. Then he walked into the office less than an hour later to shoot a Fox News interview www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Uber just announced it will lay off 10% of its workforce, or around 3,300 workers. Last year, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi made $35M — 360 times his median employee's pay — and announced a $20B stock buyback program to further enrich shareholders and himself. Textbook corporate greed.
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bigpapou.bsky.social @bigpapou.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If they had lived: Hendrix would be doing an all-guests album with, like, Dua Lipa and Doja Cat (complimentary), Lennon would be hard antivax but also in charge of an immersive audio-pain exhibit at the Guggenheim, Janis Joplin would be living happily on her nondescript organic farm
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Actual adult people who work in the mainstream press talk to this guy and take him seriously. He's a white supremacist, yes, but he's also just a premium sexless dork.
Richard Hanania: The point of a game like Grand Theft Auto is to identify with the character.

By making a female character, the new game will be promoting autogynephilia.

There’s nothing necessarily wrong with that, and if they make her bisexual then the game won’t necessarily be unhealthy.
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 29/08/2026
I don't think that enough people realize how big of an issue sports gambling (including so-called "predictions markets") are on college campuses. Take a few minutes and read through this family's challenge with gambling addictions that led to stopping out of college and a mountain of debt.
espn.com
'We are broken': One family's fight against gambling addiction
For Amit, it all started with a college poker game. Now he's in recovery from a gambling addiction that consumed him and his parents.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
nba players are some bitches for not saying anything about the extreme harassment the wnba is dealing with right now
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Danielle Lalonders @dlalonders.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
nba players are some bitches for not saying anything about the extreme harassment the wnba is dealing with right now
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bigpapou.bsky.social @bigpapou.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ok the new hyped indie album fails my “do the singers sound like they want to be singing in a band” test. God fucking dammit Jeff tweedy the horror you have wrought
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 24/08/2026
There is something so frustrating about watching basically every staff sports writer completely mangle this story about transphobia in the WNBA, while so many trans journalists who would do a great job (and who have been pitching stories about this!) are struggling to get hired and make ends meet.
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Valerie Valkyrie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
TASH FOREVER 🫡 🏳️‍⚧️
Post from threads by @t__cloud9:

To every trans kid/person,

You are apart of MY community & tribe. You belong. You're loved. You're seen. You're perfect as you are.
& you will always be protected by me.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 24/08/2026
such a fascinating contrast to Brianna Stewart
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Kevin @samhinkieknew.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This might be the most pathetic behavior by a former pro athlete at a game in history. Right up there with Broadway Joe hitting on Suzy Kolber on live TV while hammered.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
the average well-off DSA organizer is basically organizing to pay higher taxes the rest of their life and in a society where that level of selflessness is pretty rare I don't think anyone should be giving them shit for it
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/08/2026
the other thing is that most of the DSA program would be net money positive up to like the top decile. my federal taxes would probably go up 50% under Medicare for all but zeroing out healthcare costs would more than compensate
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 22/08/2026
The more companies that do this the quicker Medicare for all becomes the kind of political position people will pretend they had always been in support of after it’s passed.
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
this from upenn's student paper is worth reading as the term starts: "AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought."
thedp.com
Editorial | Penn has an AI problem
The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board argues that Penn’s choice to embrace AI is detrimental to the institution of higher education. 
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
data4democracy.substack.com
Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 13/08/2026
There’s got to be some outlet with budget that’s willing to send me - a married lesbian woman - to this and then Mets singles night to ethnographically catalogue the vibe at each
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Jane McManus @janesports.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It’s to humiliate women. The social stigma for a non-trans man was once way too great to consider playing women’s sports. But if the goal is to humiliate those players, and there are social rewards in the humiliation, this is what we get.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 08/08/2026
Replace Muslim with most any other minority community and it would warrant expulsion or at least censure But this vile dehumanizing hate targeted at Americans who are Muslim is accepted as legitimate political discourse and no one blinks
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Private equity has been scooping up life insurers that provide "permanent capital." Private credit has been financing the AI infrastructure build-out. Those two come together, and the result could be a bailout paid by state taxpaers, according to a fascinating new paper. I talked to the authors:
prospect.org
Private credit companies are key owners of AI-related assets. Many of their parent private equity firms own life insurers that are dumping grounds for bad loans—and subject to state bailouts.
Instead of passing through bankruptcy, insolvent life insurers have all their liabilities—in particular the policyholder claims—paid for by state guaranty funds.
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Pacific Antifascist Research Collective @pacantifa.is · 01/08/2026
Here is our full list of all 145 sex pests and sexual predators from ICE and Customs & Border Protection in a single image. The entries outlined in red indicate entries involving alleged sex crimes against children.
A full list of 145 sex pests and sexual predators from ICE and Customs & Border Protection in a roughly 12 rows X 12 columns yearbook style grid with booking photos where available. The entries outlined in red indicate entries involving alleged sex crimes against children. Agencies are noted along with latest disposition of criminal cases.
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MM 💛🤍💜 @matthewmiranda.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
ICE = pervs Pass it on!
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bigpapou.bsky.social @bigpapou.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Just heard an AI song on Hot 97. What the fuck
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Yeah so NYT asked me ~2 yrs ago to write an op-ed about how the Colorado is running dry, & what we should do to keep this exact thing from happening. I said "There's only one real answer. Bill farmers by how much water they use. Duh." NYT editorial staff freaked tf out & cancelled the piece.
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bigpapou.bsky.social @bigpapou.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Good fucking lord the fucking MBAspeak needs to stop
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Mash @itismashagain.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My entire life I’ve never called it the FIFA World Cup. I’ve always called it the World Cup. Fans don’t give a shit about FIFA. If national teams showed up for a World Cup tournament not held by FIFA we would all watch it. World Cup is the brand. FIFA is nothing.
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Bobson Dugnutt @sagafood.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
There's absolutely nothing wrong with continually blasting him for saying this, but just be aware that the original quote is from February. thehill.com/policy/healt...
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RFK Jr. suggests buying liver or ‘cheap cuts’ instead of steak
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday suggested people eat liver or “cheap cuts” in response to the high cost of beef. “This is true all over the cou…
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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
yeah i think i think this too
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The Jarmer Fones @thefarmerjones.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
If you're friendly w/ an archivist or academic librarian, you probably know destroying books CAN be an acceptable part of the digitizing process. Problem is a) it's not the only option, b) it definitely shouldn't happen to rare books, & c) why fuck would we trust Anthropic's intentions on anything.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"oh no, don't do socialist things! you'll play right into their hands" - the people playing right the fuck into their hands
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/07/2026
Here's my interview with CNBC on how Zuckerberg's vacuous talking points about AGI and open source exist to distract from how Meta burned $180bn in capex (and more off-balance-sheet) to make also-ran LLMs that don't deliver an iota of the promise of "personal superintelligence."
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 28/07/2026
This by Parker is very, very good. The fact that the "joke" was being compared to a trans person required an apology to the cisgender reporter caught up in it did not include any space to defend the trans person who had nothing to do with thisthe event, is a sad reflection of this current moment.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I legitimately love that The Odyssey has brought on a little resurgence of vocal O Brother Where Art Thou? appreciation!
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bigpapou.bsky.social @bigpapou.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Reminds me of James Dolan scolding “sell the team“ fans during the dark days. “You’re not very positive” he yelled at the guy if I recall correctly. It’s abusive parent/partner behavior
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Mamdani criticizes Netanyahu. Later, a crazy man stabs a Jewish man and an Asian man. And we get an article suggesting that while one stabbing (dismissed in six words) is just a shrug, the other implicates the mayor. Disgraceful framing. Shame on everyone involved. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/n...
nytimes.com
After Stabbings, a Rise in Jewish Fears and Questions for Mamdani (Gift Article)
Some politicians said Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s criticism of Israel had created a dangerous environment. He pushed back, condemning the stabbings of two men on the Upper West Side and defending his state...
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Dylan Goforth @dmgoforth.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
If you read this story today, Thank you. If you shared it with someone, double thank you. If you haven’t read it yet, here it is. Thanks for caring about Oklahoma and the power of real journalism. If you don’t believe in journalism, I’m gonna change your mind www.readfrontier.org/stories/tuls...
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Tulsa police took him to the city jail instead of a hospital. Video shows he was dead within an hour.
Justin Benner pleaded for help as detention officers wrestled him into a full-body restraint device and left him alone in a cell.
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Dylan Goforth @dmgoforth.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Instant impact baby
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
70% of Americans don't want energy-guzzling AI data centers being built in their communities, including 63% of Republicans. Trump's response? "You can't fight it, you have to go with it." Reminder that Trump owns millions of dollars worth of stock in Big Tech corporations pushing data centers.
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